Slate's 10 most popular stories from 2010.

Slate's Most-Read Stories

The 10 most popular articles of 2010.

Every year, Slate rounds up its most-read stories, and the list can be revealing. In 2009, readers hungered for tales of the new Obama presidency. This year, not so much. Perhaps you were drowning your political sorrows in front of the TV—our Lost and Mad Men "TV Clubs" both made the list. Other popular stories explored offbeat topics, like the uselessness of expiration dates, or the habits of vacationing nudists, or—in our most-read story of the year—the loneliest man on the planet. Readers were also drawn to our enterprise reporting, like Emily Bazelon's series on Phoebe Prince and Timothy Noah's slide show about inequality in America. Below, you'll find a list of the 10 articles and 10 slide shows that attracted the most readers this year.